Homestead High School - Crest Yearbook (Mequon, WI)

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TIGHT COR ERS Forensics is an extracurricular speech activity which allows students to work in nine different categories. This year our foiensics team placed fourth in the con- ference. Nine members went to the dis- trict meet, and five of these nine won A's and will be going on to the state meet in April.

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WE TALKED OURSELVES I TO S. lllll 1 Homestead's debate team had a 82-70 recoml in the 1964-65 season. This year the topic was Resolved: Nuclear weapons should be controlled by an intemational organization. The debators received recognition of their achievements through awards presented by the National Forensics League. 'Hua lug 3 s 46

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SE IOR CLASS PL Y , L 'I A1 ui ,Lan ln November, 1964, the Senior Class presented The Death and Life of Larry Benson. Larry Benson, lRick Wegnerj joined the army but hadn't been heard of for a long time. His mother Uviary Schmity, father fWal1y Schoessowj, and sister Jessie QDorothy Zaeskej had assumed that he was dead, but as the play opens news has just come that Larry is coming home. As the family is preparing for Lany's return, Jessie's friends Susan and Mary Ellen fKaren Waedekin and Diane Baranekj, Larry's former girl friend and her fiance lBettie Larus and Ken Czisnyy, neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Potter QRick Gutwald and Barb Hardmanj friends Nettie Clark and her son Melvin QKathie Schalk and Rick Mc- Cutcheonj and one of Larry's old teachers fKathie Adamekj came to visit. But the boy who returns is not Larry but a homeless friend who was with him when he died and wants to take Lan'y's place. In the end the family welcomes the boy into their home as a replacement for their own son. R View